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Sunday , June 10, 2018 - 12:00 AM
Well, summer is here, and with it, a mass of an unknown substance. You say this is free time? Alright, if you insist.
For most of us, summer means a lot more time to do whatever we want. The problem is that a lot of the time, this ends up being related to electronics. Many of us binge-watch on Netflix, Hulu or YouTube. You'd be hard-pressed to find a teen who has no problem whatsoever with not spending more time than they need on electronic devices.
However, this habit can have many ill effects on our health, whether it be disturbed sleep patterns, messed up focus and concentration, or actual addiction. It's fair to say that most teens are at least a little addicted to their phones, and as such, they miss out on a lot that life has to offer. Real memories are shunted aside in favor of your favorite YouTuber's video.
With these ideas in mind, it's easy to get discouraged. After all, it's easy to turn to the internet when you're bored, and the habit is hard to break.
But my purpose is not to make anyone ashamed of how much time they spend online. Electronics can be a valuable resource for extremely good pursuits, but only if you use them as a tool. Rather today, I'd like to present seven things you can do this summer — instead of electronics — in order to empower your experiences and live life more fully.
1. Learn something new
As the summer begins, a good way to set it off in the correct direction is to think of things that you have wanted to learn, and find out the steps to learn them.
For example, I would love to be able to sing better in front of people. So I might make a goal to learn some singing warm-ups from a video. Then, each day I can spend time practicing warming up and singing better. Or, I could actually take lessons from a teacher to evaluate and improve that skill even more. In this situation, I am using electronics only to assist my goal, and when I do that, it becomes a huge benefit to me.
So, what do you want to know more about? Do you want to skateboard? Sew? Climb? Whatever it is, find a way to incorporate it into your regular life, then choose actions to become better at it.
2. Play board games
This list had to include something specific, so, when in doubt, pull out a game! Whether it be Monopoly, Life or some weird new game you found, grab a friend and play.
For extra points, bring the game to the park or your front lawn on some beautiful day and enjoy the clear air while you enjoy actual time with someone. Maybe you have an entire closet of games — so make a goal to play them all over the summer! Enjoying nature and spending time with someone — or working on beating your all-time best Yahtzee score, if that's your thing — will be rejuvenating.
3. Make plans
The hardest thing to deal with in the summer is the middle-of-the-summer heat, where you don't want to do anything, and you feel like you've done nothing.
To break that up, make a plan. Whether it's a personal day to treat yourself to the whole spa treatment, or a time with your friends to see the new "Incredibles 2," it's always good to give yourself something to look forward to. Life can't be only about the things you have to work on. So take a break from scholarship searching and regular life and enjoy yourself.
4. Get rid of distractions
One thing you can do to reduce your unnecessary time on electronics is to eliminate those things that you get stuck on. Take a look at your device: What do you spend the most time on? Is it the YouTube app, or perhaps some game?
Try uninstalling the offender, or placing it on your phone in a place that's hard to get to, to put it outside your sight, and correspondingly, outside your mind. Although this is no cure-all, it can certainly help curb your time spent on social media or games to help you use your phone for what it's meant for: communication.
5. Do service
Take some time to get outside yourself and think of those around you. An act of service doesn't have to be big, just thoughtful. So, even if you are stuck at home because you can't drive, then take a look at what can be done in your house, or your neighborhood.
Even if the service seems small, or if no one seems to notice, it's a good way to feel better. The effects of service on how you feel are well documented, and it really can make a difference in your day and the days of others.
6. Be active
Another thing we sometimes neglect is activity to keep our heart rate healthy. Mayo Clinic recommends 30 minutes of exercise every day, and in the summer, there's no reason not to do that.
If you don't know where to start, then experiment with different types of exercise. Maybe you enjoy a morning round of PiYo, a combo of Pilates and yoga. Perhaps an evening bike ride is more to your fancy. Or you may find that weightlifting is your thing.
Whatever you enjoy, do it and have fun with it; uou'll feel better and have a new activity to fill your time.
7. Set intentions — and recommit to them
Perhaps one of the best ways to start your summer off on the right foot is to take a look at where you want to go. If you don't decide to stop spending time on electronics specifically, it can be hard to break the habit. So lay out your intentions for how you want to spend your summer. Make them attainable things and habits you can keep.
Then, put your goals somewhere where you'll see them, and remind yourself each morning of what you are trying to improve on. As long as you are patient with setbacks, and just strive to improve each day, it will be a powerful way to make your summer what you want it to be.
So go and explore. Find the world, and discover new talents, take risks and learn. You don't have to be held back by bad habits. Just find the ways to use your time in a way that will be to your benefit. Because your summer is worth that. It's all up to you.
Sierra Clark will be a senior this fall at Venture High School. She plays piano and flute and is an avid reader, but most of all she enjoys learning all about new things. Email her at email@example.com.
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Dinner Tonight
That simple and cozy old-faithful dinner of chicken and salad, spruced up and spring-cleaned for your enjoyment. Lizthechef calls her Lemon Artichoke Chicken (I don't know about you, but the name alone makes me swoon) a "perfect mid-week supper, elegant enough for a dinner party", and you'll surely agree. Waverly's celery and mushroom salad elevates both and will earn each of them a place in your grocery basket for good. Put these two together, and you have a real winner of a weeknight chicken dinner.
The Menu
Italian Celery and Mushroom Salad by Waverly
Lemon Artichoke Chicken by Lizthechef
The Grocery List (for 4)
8 ribs celery
1 pound mushrooms
1 small bunch parsley
4 boneless chicken breasts
1 10-ounce package of artichoke hearts, thawed
Crème fraîche
We assume you have lemons, parmesan, salt, pepper, olive oil, butter, dry sherry, and bread crumbs. If not, well, it's time to stock up!
The Plan
1. The chicken takes about 25 minutes to bake, so we'll tackle that first. After pounding the chicken breast a bit, brown them in a skillet with some butter. Place them in the baking dish with the hearts. Mix the quick, creamy sauce on the stove and pour it over the chicken and 'chokes. Get excited.
2. Sprinkle the chicken with panko and cheese and let it bubble in the oven while you make the salad.
3. Chop your way through the mushrooms, saute them and let them cool a bit. Then toss them together with all of the other ingredients right before you pull the chicken out of the oven. Ta da! A truly lovely, impressive and most of all delectable dinner in no time flat.
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Agents raid Eustis home, arrest 4 drug suspects
EUSTIS, Fla. —
An investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies led to four arrests in Eustis on Tuesday.
Agents served a warrant at 205 W. Chelsey Ave. because investigators said they believe the home was being used to sell and manufacture drugs.
Four people inside the home were arrested after drugs were found.
Cheryle Cleveland, 39, Jeffrey Pyatt, 35, Bruce Dutton, 40, and Christopher Smith, 26, all face a host of charges, including the trafficking of pseudoephedrine and the possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell.
Officials said they also found cannabis, a scale and other material to aid in the manufacturing of meth.
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Introducing the New Labor Movement
'Union Conservatives' enter the fray
For Terry Bowman, the decisive moment came when his union, UAW Local 898, ran an article in its newsletter arguing that Jesus would have supported Obamacare. The realization that his union dues were being used for politics — aggressive big-government politics at that — eventually led Bowman to create a new organization called "Union Conservatives."
The purpose behind Union Conservatives is to provide an outlet for workers throughout the state who support the basic idea of unions but are troubled by unaccountable union officials and the political orientation of the union establishment. As Bowman sees it, workers have been shortchanged by an outdated labor law that assumes constant antagonism between workers and employers. Union Conservatives also stands for the proposition that real labor solidarity can only be achieved when conservatives, who make up 40 percent of union members (or maybe even more?) are represented among union officials. What is needed are unions that are based in the reality of free markets in a democratic society, rather than leftist ideology.
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Terry Bowman's sharpest disagreement with the union establishment is probably over the value of right-to-work laws; Bowman sees voluntary unionism as an indispensible means of assuring that union officials remain accountable to the men and women they represent, explaining his thinking in a Detroit News Op-Ed.
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Daniel Ricciardo scored points for the fifth time in seven races after another impressive drive for Toro Rosso in Abu Dhabi. The Australian held off Michael Schumacher to finish tenth in a race which almost saw him take out championship leader Sebastian Vettel, an incident Ricciardo says he had little awareness of.
"I got a good start, although I had to avoid an accident shortly after", he commented. "My initial pace was quite good and I could stay with Schumacher who was on the Prime, while like most people I was on the Option, but I could not get close enough to pass him. Then, in my second stint, on the Prime, I don't feel we got up to speed quickly enough and I was struggling a bit with braking. When the second Safety Car came out, we pitted again, which was a good call – originally we had considered a one stop – took on new Options and the fresher tyre meant I had a better pace towards the end. I'm pretty happy with tenth as I was not expecting points after the early part of the race, but I never gave up and kept fighting to the end. In the final laps, Schumacher was closing in on me again, but I managed to hold him off. Vettel behind me during the Safety Car? I looked in my mirrors and saw him go through one of the polystyrene boards, but I have no idea what happened."
Toro Rosso teammate Jean-Eric Vergne missed out on a points finish in twelfth and he felt the second safety car period prevented him from challenging Ricciardo in the closing stages.
"I started the race from one place behind my team-mate on the grid and finished two behind him. I am disappointed with the way this Grand Prix panned out for me. I got a good start and with some help from others having problems, I went up five places from seventeenth when the lights went out to twelfth at the end of the opening lap. The call from the pit wall to make my first tyre change earlier than planned when the first Safety Car came out was the right one. However, the second Safety Car did not play in my favour so that at the end, Daniel on fresher tyres was able to run at a faster pace. It's good for the team that he got another point at the end of what has been a tough weekend for us."
Team Principal Franz Tost was happy with the performances of both drivers as their consistent run continued.
"Both our drivers got a good start, making up five places each, relative to their grid positions, partly down to an accident on the opening lap. From then on, both drivers did a good job and the team's strategy choices worked well, making the most of the Safety Car opportunities, bringing Vergne in during the first one and Ricciardo at the second. In the end, we scored a point with Daniel, who managed to get past his team mate, as he was on newer tyres for the closing stages and Jev was not that far behind at the flag. It is good to have picked up another point, as it means we have finished in the top ten in five of the last seven races. It is especially gratifying as this is something of a second home race for us, with many of our major sponsors here to watch us perform well come the end of what has been a tough weekend."


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MarketTap mobilizes Knoema's in-country networks of paid volunteers to obtain client-defined streams of local data. First launched in June 2014, the program targeted one urban and one rural market in each of African country. The program has quickly grown and now sustains reliable food price coverage in at least 44 countries and more than 150 food markets in Africa in addition to global coverage in countries including: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Russia.
Figure 1. Our established commercial network of collectors - known as MarketTap - is global, expanding, and highly trained in mobile data collection. We pay collectors in our MarketTap network to collect food prices in multiple regions worldwide. We have also successfully converted our extensive network of paid collectors in Africa to obtain information related to health facilities and services.
MarketTap generates for clients unique, sustainable and scalable access to local markets to fulfill multiple potential objectives:
Under the program, Knoema trains individuals on the ground to collect data and to use the Knoema mobile and web-based data collection software platform. The software supports three critical functions:
Data Submission. The platform is equipped with an online submission system and a mobile application for Android OS for real time data collection. Collectors are now submitting roughly 30 percent of the retail price data through Knoema's mobile application; the remainder submit through a standard internet application. Each submission includes a geolocated tag with the market or submission location.
Standardization. Data submissions are simplified by allowing collectors to input price data for any given unit or local currency. The Knoema Data Collection Platform converts the provided data into a recommended base unit (such as 1 kg or USD) automatically. The automated conversion minimizes possible human error in calculations and allows users to easily compare and review prices, for example, collected across different regions, within a country, or across multiple countries.
Automated quality review and monitoring. The software enhances accuracy and timeliness by detecting anomalous data based on indicator, time period, and collector and alerting monitoring staff to outliers and sharp jumps in value. The system forces collectors to provide notes justifying jumps in value. Knoema statisticians may also randomly audit submissions, selecting to review all submitted data for a market, suspicious data observations for a market, data submitted by a specific collector, or data submitted during a certain time period.


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TORONTO (AP) — Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul took a jarring hit Thursday night in the first period against the Philadelphia Flyers and didn't return to the game.
Lupul dug the puck out of the corner in the Toronto end when Jay Rosehill and Adam Hall sandwiched him with hits. He immediately skated off the ice and went to the dressing room with just over seven minutes left in the period.
The Maple Leafs announced on Twitter that Lupul sustained an undisclosed upper body injury and wouldn't return.


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Infinite scrolling: pros and cons
It's not exactly new, but you probably encountered far more sites with infinite scrolling functionality in 2012 than you did in 2011, and there's a good chance you'll come across even more in 2013.
With popular services like Twitter and Pinterest bringing infinite scrolling into the mainstream, it's no surprise that more and more designers and publishers are considering doing away with old school pagination.
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The web has been around for well over a decade now and during that time, the field of web design has evolved quite a bit. Yet while web technology has changed at a record pace, the principles of good design largely remain the same.
Here are 10 informative web design presentations that discuss web design and web design principles.
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Horoscopes for week of October 16, 2008
I usually don't have to tell you Bulls how important it is to finish what you've started. You are, after all, among the top three signs of the zodiac when it comes to following through. But just in case you've momentarily fallen under the sway of a delusion that would encourage you to escape before the resolution is fully in place, I'm here to remind you: It's time to make the art of completion your graceful obsession.
Who are the best enemies we have ever had? According to David Brown in the Washington Post, they are the thousands of endogenous retroviruses that attacked our ancestors for millions of years. In response to their evil invasions, we humans have had to build our rough, tough immune system, which is one of the most amazing creations on the planet. Let's make this your inspirational metaphor for the coming weeks, Gemini. I urge you to welcome the opportunities that your adversaries are going to give you to grow bigger, stronger, and more beautiful.
Sometimes it makes sense for you to be conservative and cautious and skeptical of novelty. A periodic immersion in the slow-motion approach helps you maintain a strong center of gravity and allows you to be true to yourself in the face of the pressure you get to be like everyone else. The past few weeks have been such a time for you, Cancerian. Soon, though, you'll begin to feel urges to take some risks, instigate fresh trends, and express yourself with more daring and expansiveness. Are you game?
Futurists predict that in 30 years many of us will have robots as our best friends. But I believe it's already the case that machines are our boon companions. You may not have a name for your computer or iPhone, but you interact with it as if it were an animate and intimate assistant. Music or TV or talk radio might be turned on in your home around the clock, providing a constant flow of comforting noise. I know people who derive a sense of coziness from the hum of the refrigerator or the rumble blowing through the heating vents. Have you ever talked to your car? Kicked a temperamental appliance? Used a sex toy? This is the best week ever for you to acknowledge your symbiosis with the alien life forms we depend on. Now go kiss your laptop. Caress your toaster.
"If you could ask everyone you met one question, what would it be?" A reader named Ty Sassaman emailed me with that query. As I thought about what my response would be, I considered questions like "What's the one thing you most want to accomplish before you die many years from now?" or "What could you do to bring more intelligence into the way you love?" But ultimately I decided on "What is your soul's code?" How about you, Virgo? What would be your prime question? I suggest that in the coming days you ask it of everyone you encounter. You're in a phase in your astrological cycle when focused curiosity is a kind of superpower.
Describing the poet Kenneth Koch, his colleague John Ashbery said that his work "gives you the impression that you are leading an interesting life; going to parties and meeting interesting people, falling in love, going for rides in the country and to public swimming pools, eating in the best restaurants and going to movies and the theater in the afternoons. By comparison, most other modern poetry makes me feel as if I were living in a small Midwestern university town." In the coming weeks, Libra, I exhort you to have an impact on people that's like Koch's poetry. Here's the best way to do that: Live the most interesting and imaginative life you can dream up.
If you're a left-winger, you may think right-wingers are stupid or evil or both. If you're a right-winger, you probably hold the same attitudes about left-wingers. A similar pattern prevails between most other groups that hold opposing views. You're a rare person if you've never looked at a certain group of people and thought to yourself, "They are all sick idiots." But in the coming week, Scorpio, I'm asking you to find out what it's like to dispense with judgments like that. In fact, try living without any scapegoats whatsoever. If even for an hour per day, visualize the possibility that those with whom you disagree might be sincere and well-meaning. I'm not suggesting this exercise merely because it's a nice thing to do. It will also have the magical effect of giving you access to parts of your own intelligence that have been closed off to you.
"Be humble for you are made of dung," says a Serbian proverb. "Be noble for you are made of stars." I expect that you'll soon be getting vivid evidence of that truth, Sagittarius. Your challenge will be to resist the temptation to believe that you're more dung than stars, or more stars than dung. That might be hard, given the fact that practically everyone around you believes they are one or the other. But I promise you that you have the power to do it. You can exude cheerful equanimity while dwelling right at the crux of the paradox.
Describing a Jupiter transit, Capricorn astrologer Steven Forrest wrote, "Life is a train wreck, except the trains are made of cake and ice cream." Amen to that, bro. I'd add that a Jupiter transit might also be imagined as being on the verge of too many orgasms, or getting forced to make a painful choice between fantastic wealth and amazing power, or having well-meaning allies overwhelm you with help. Now, as you enter the last 12 weeks of Jupiter's year-long journey through your astrological house of beginnings, I'm expecting you to harvest some of the most delightful and enriching "messes" ever.
In a recent horoscope, I urged people to convince everyone around them to take more responsibility and be more accountable. In response, a reader named Rene wrote, "I can't think of ANYTHING more futile! Convincing other people to be anything other than the way they are is a misguided and losing proposition. Unless people have hired you as their therapist, or adopted you as their guru, they are not likely to take your opinions about their behavior seriously." Rene did acknowledge that it's possible to subtly inspire people by being a stirring example of the behavior you'd like to see in them. Since I think her observations are not only wise but also pertinent to your current situation, I'm passing them on to you.
In medieval Europe, more resources and human ingenuity were lavished upon cathedrals and churches than on any other buildings. In the last hundred years, the emphasis has been different, having switched to the towering structures that house institutions dedicated to commerce. By that measure, Money is a far more important God than God. During the next few weeks, Pisces, I invite you to buck the modern trend. As an experiment, see if you can devote at least one more percent of your energy and intelligence to matters of the spirit and soul than to the demands of the material realm. I suspect you'll find, ironically, that this will lead to an increase of your mastery over the material realm.
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September 21. 2013 10:17PM
BRENTWOOD — A Wakefield, Mass., teen was taken to a Boston hospital after suffering serious injuries when his dirt bike hit a tree, according to a release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
The release said the teen was riding with friends about 5:20 p.m. on a dirt bike course in the woods off Route 125 when the accident happened. He suffered "serious bodily injury" and was taken to Beth Israel Hospital.
The teen, whose name was not released, was wearing a helmet and protective goggles at the time of the crash, the release said.
"This accident could have turned out for the worse if proper protective equipment was not worn." said Conservation Officer Chris McKee. "This incident is a grave reminder that wearing a helmet, goggles and protective gear while out on the trail is extremely important."


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Rigorous study of the real numbers and real-valued functions. Topics include: limits and continuity on the real line, elementary topology of the real numbers, pathological examples. Other topics may include metric spaces, differentiation, vector-valued functions.
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Moscow, Russian Fed. — June 24, 2013 — Iron Bit company is announcing admission of space settlers for exploration and colonization of distant planets. Fit individuals with stable mentality, good tolerance of interstellar travels and ability to work in team are welcome. Extraterrestrial colonization is known to be a safe and fun thing to do. The first settlers are sure to enjoy the vast openness, amiable exotic landscapes, friendly flora and fauna. Do not be confused by the amount of ammunition all expeditions are equipped with – this is done solely to ensure everyone's comfort and peace of mind. Natural resources abundant in the depths of uncharted planets and vitally important for the people of Earth are waiting there to be taken.
Colonies Online is a game world consisting of a great number of planets each with an area of thousands square kilometers. Game objective is to gain a foothold in the developed areas, either making headway single-handedly or creating enclaves with other players. Players united in an enclave can build colonies. A colony is a place where research is conducted, and equipment and resources are stored. Therefore, it is likely to become subject to intense interest of competitors. Overtaking a colony is a great opportunity to weaken the enemy as well as loot trophies.
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Matt Ryan went 26-32, 353 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT against Tampa. The Bucs are physical, but yards in the air seem to be there if Peyton wants them.
Fascinating that the vote is so close on the Redskins. I guess last week turned some heads. And it's in DC. But FedEx ain't RFK and the Jints defense will not be giving RGIII any time. I hope he doesn't get hurt trying to do too much.
Gosh Oakland is terrible.
I luvs me some Niners but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the Lambs at home. They have a sneaky way of making these games closer than they should be. Just look at what happened 3 weeks ago.
I'm hoping that the council is correct and that the Kaeper cements his status as the starter and ends all talk of a QB controversy the way it should be ended...with a superb performance against a divisional rival on the road.


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SOURCE: Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc.
February 04, 2014 08:45 ET
Clinical Program Complete for Novel Iron Replacement Drug Triferic™
Clinical Program Complete for Novel Iron Replacement Drug Triferic™
WIXOM, MI--(Marketwired - Feb 4, 2014) - Rockwell Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: RMTI), a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company targeting end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) with innovative products and services for the treatment of iron replacement, secondary hyperparathyroidism and hemodialysis, today announced its large-scale, long-term safety study is complete. This final Phase 3 study and the two CRUISE clinical efficacy and safety studies were conducted in support of the New Drug Application (NDA) for marketing approval of Triferic. Triferic is the Company's late-stage investigational iron-replacement drug for treating iron deficiency in chronic kidney disease patients receiving hemodialysis.
"We are thrilled to have achieved this significant milestone event," stated Mr. Robert L. Chioini, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell. "The Phase 3 clinical program is now complete and we are focused on filing our NDA with the FDA in the near-term. This drug's unique mode of action, its delivery via dialysate and efficient iron delivery directly to the bone marrow, enables it to be used immediately, like dietary iron, and maintain hemoglobin while significantly reducing the need for ESA. These clinical benefits highlight its potential to be the market-leading iron therapy treatment for CKD-HD patients."
"We continue to be impressed with Triferic and its safety profile," stated Dr. Raymond Pratt, CMO of Rockwell. "Our clinical program is easily the largest and longest cohort of any parenteral iron drug. We have dosed Triferic in over 100,000 separate administrations and we have not identified an acute safety signal or anaphylactic reaction. This additional safety data, coupled with the successful Phase 3 CRUISE studies and ongoing open-label study, gives us great confidence that Triferic can provide dialysis patients a safe, effective maintenance iron therapy."
These safety studies were the continuation of the CRUISE efficacy trials and Study SFP-6, a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover, multicenter, multinational, Phase 3 study with an enrollment of 718 CKD-HD patients in the US and Canada. Both studies allowed patients to continue to receive Triferic in the open-label extension study for up to one additional year. Consistent with expectations, a preliminary review of the safety data revealed:
About Triferic™
Triferic is a unique iron compound that is delivered to the hemodialysis patient via dialysate, replacing the 5-7 mg of iron that is lost during every dialysis treatment. Triferic is introduced into the sodium bicarbonate concentrate on-site at the dialysis clinic, which is subsequently mixed into dialysate. Once in the dialysate, Triferic crosses the dialyzer membrane and enters the blood where it immediately binds to apo-transferrin and is taken to the bone marrow, similar to how dietary iron is processed in the human body. In completed clinical trials to date, Triferic has demonstrated that it can safely and effectively deliver sufficient iron to the bone marrow, maintain hemoglobin and not increase iron stores (ferritin), while significantly reducing ESA dose.
About Rockwell Medical
Rockwell Medical is a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company targeting end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) with innovative products and services for the treatment of iron replacement, secondary hyperparathyroidism and hemodialysis.
Rockwell's lead drug candidate Triferic is in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of iron replacement in dialysis patients. Triferic delivers iron to the bone marrow of dialysis patients in a non-invasive, physiologic manner during their regular dialysis treatment, using dialysate as the delivery mechanism. In completed clinical trials to date, Triferic has demonstrated that it can safely and effectively deliver sufficient iron to the bone marrow, maintain hemoglobin and not increase iron stores (ferritin), while significantly reducing ESA dose. Triferic has successfully completed the efficacy trials of its Phase 3 clinical study program (CRUISE-1 and CRUISE-2). Triferic is expected to address an estimated $600M U.S. market.
Rockwell is preparing to launch its FDA approved generic drug Calcitriol, to treat secondary hyperparathyroidism in dialysis patients. Calcitriol (active vitamin D) injection is indicated in the management of hypocalcemia in patients undergoing chronic renal dialysis. It has been shown to significantly reduce elevated parathyroid hormone levels. Reduction of PTH has been shown to result in an improvement in renal osteodystrophy. Rockwell intends to launch Calcitriol once it receives FDA manufacturing approval, addressing an estimated $350M U.S. market.
Rockwell is also an established manufacturer and leader in delivering high-quality hemodialysis concentrates/dialysates to dialysis providers and distributors in the U.S. and abroad. As one of the two major suppliers in the U.S., Rockwell's products are used to maintain human life by removing toxins and replacing critical nutrients in the dialysis patient's bloodstream. Rockwell has three manufacturing/distribution facilities located in the U.S. and its operating infrastructure is a ready-made sales and distribution channel that is able to provide seamless integration into the commercial market for its drug products, Calcitriol and Triferic upon FDA market approval.
Rockwell's exclusive renal drug therapies support disease management initiatives to improve the quality of life and care of dialysis patients and are intended to deliver safe and effective therapy, while decreasing drug administration costs and improving patient convenience. Rockwell Medical is developing a pipeline of drug therapies, including extensions of Triferic for indications outside of hemodialysis. Please visit www.rockwellmed.com for more information. For a demonstration of the Triferic unique mechanism of action in delivering iron via dialysate, please view the animation video at http://www.rockwellmed.com/collateral/documents/english-us/mode-of-action.html.
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, Rockwell's intention to launch Calcitriol and Triferic following FDA approval. Words such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast," "project," "plan," "intend" or similar expressions, or statements regarding intent, belief, or current expectations, are forward-looking statements. While Rockwell Medical believes these forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on any such forward-looking statements, which are based on information available to us on the date of this release. These forward looking statements are based upon current estimates and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including without limitation those set forth in Rockwell Medical's SEC filings. Thus, actual results could be materially different. Rockwell Medical expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Badger: 'What saves us all, is love'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Nobody knows Madonna Badger at the Friendly Chapel in North Little Rock.
Nobody asks why she's crying during Sunday services on this early December morning. It has been nearly one year since her parents and three children died in a Christmas Day fire 1,300 miles away in Connecticut.
Madonna is not alone in her tears. It's an exuberant congregation, and the room is filled with people sobbing, talking, praying, hugging, singing. She sits in the front side pew near a plastic nativity display, reaching for a box of tissues as the choir belts out the chorus to "Better than a Hallelujah," popularized by Amy Grant.
"We pour out our miseries/God just hears a melody/Beautiful, the mess we are/The honest cries of breaking hearts/Are better than a Hallelujah."
Madonna's shoulders shake.
She routinely points out people and places in Little Rock that saved her life since Christmas. Friendly Chapel is one of these places.
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"I'm totally anonymous there -- it's just a very loving place," she says as she puts her blue Tahoe in gear and pulls out of the parking lot after the service. "I'm much more of a spiritual being than a religious one. I'm just there for the love, and that's all they talk about."
Madonna came to Little Rock in February, after six weeks of shuttling between friends' houses and mental institutions. At a group therapy trauma center in Tennessee she asked to see a doctor and was handed a "Relief from Grief" pamphlet. Madonna didn't need a brochure; she was looking for someone who could interpret her sadness.
She called Kate Anderson Askew, who she met when they were underclassmen at Vanderbilt University in the early 1980s. It was Kate who helped Madonna write her daughters' eulogy. Kate arrived in Tennessee to meet Madonna in a red Mini Cooper.
With nowhere else to go, Madonna asked her friend: "Can I come stay with you?"
"You know you can come stay with me," Kate replied. "You can stay with me as long as you like, but you have to promise me one thing."
Madonna had to promise not to kill herself.
"I thought about it all the time -- I think about it now," Madonna says of suicide as she and Kate recall the promise. "I had lost my three children, my mom and dad, my house. I had nothing. It was like, why be here?"
One year and one day ago -- on Dec. 24, 2011 -- Madonna had everything. She owned Badger & Winters, an advertising company with big-name clients and a penthouse office in New York's fashion district. Renovations were nearly complete on her new home, a 116-year-old Victorian overlooking Long Island Sound in Stamford's upscale Shippan neighborhood 40 miles north of Manhattan.
She had three beautiful daughters, 9-year-old Lily and 7-year-old twins Sarah and Grace, who were just starting to make friends in their new neighborhood. Madonna was divorcing their father, commercial videographer Matthew Badger, but the couple enjoyed an amicable relationship. Madonna took two months off during the summer to spend time with the girls, and she and Matthew were getting along so well in August that the whole family rented a house together on Shelter Island, N.Y.
Madonna's parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, had moved to Connecticut after they retired to be closer to their grandchildren. They spent Christmas Eve in Stamford with Madonna and the girls, enjoying a ham dinner together in front of a crackling fireplace. That night, Madonna tucked her daughters into bed and stayed up late wrapping presents in the detached garage with Michael Borcina, a friend who was overseeing the work on her home. The pair had started dating a month earlier.
Before turning in for the night shortly before 4 a.m., Madonna asked Michael to clean up some ashes that had blown out of the small fireplace. She watched as he swept them into a bag, running his hands through the small pile before placing the bag in a garbage bin in the mudroom.
Madonna woke up choking an hour later. The smoke alarms hadn't gone off and her house was engulfed in flames. She climbed out her bedroom's second-floor window and scrambled up scaffolding on the side of her house in a desperate attempt to reach her daughters' bedrooms. She pried open a third-floor window and the smoke hit her like a wave.
She closes her eyes as she relives the horror.
"I tried -- I would imagine three or four times -- I tried to hold my breath and put my head into the smoke and toward the flame."
Firefighters arrived and dragged her off the burning building. Madonna lay in her bed at Stamford Hospital for hours, screaming for her children. A doctor finally took her hand and told her that her daughters and parents had died.
"I remember coiling up into a little ball and I looked at the nurse," Madonna says. "I just wanted to crawl out of my body. I don't remember anything after that. People in the hospital said I was just screaming and wailing."
Surviving the fire almost killed her. Somehow she made it through her daughters' funeral at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan, where she stood in front of the three little caskets and eulogized her "girl tribe." She flew to her Kentucky hometown the next day to bury her parents.
Then she disintegrated. Her hair turned gray and fell out in clumps. She waved a fistful of pills in the air and threatened to swallow them.
"I told everyone I was going to kill myself," she says now. "I had always wondered, imagined, thought, if anything were to happen to my kids that would be it. I don't know why I survived. But I'm imagining that I'm supposed to do something."
Kate has short hair, ruddy cheeks, endless energy and texts like a gunslinger. She wears silver pistol cufflinks and bellows "Hi" in two syllables, Southern style. Her family has been in Little Rock since 1850; it's where she and her husband, Jess, raised their two daughters and it's where she brought Madonna after busting her out of "hillbilly rehab."
"We had some hard times at first," Kate says. "Half the time she was on the floor sobbing. The whole thing is not being afraid to sit with someone in their pain."
Madonna's grief left little room for anything else. She couldn't keep track of time, couldn't make simple decisions, couldn't remember where she put her keys.
The haze was punctuated only by pain, which radiated through her bones and made her face feel like it would split under the force of her tears. She could not carry a conversation, could not read or write, could not watch television or listen to music.
"It was excruciating," Madonna says, rubbing her face with her hands. "It still can be, but not like those early days."
They decided Madonna would go everywhere with Kate, who, as a rare book dealer, letter press printer and certified appraiser, is always on the move. Madonna joined Kate's searches for rare and beautiful things, from museums to libraries, remote warehouses to dust-filled attics.
"We cried all over Little Rock," Kate says.
At the Askew house Madonna insisted on doing the laundry -- she relished the predictable and achievable nature of the task. In the evenings they sat in the living room and played cards for hours, slapping spades down on the square wooden table Jess made by hand. At night Madonna slept in their older daughter Anne's bedroom, curled up under a blue-and-white hand-stitched quilt with Queenie, the Askews' 14-year-old English setter, and a white-and-brown cat named Tibi.
This bedroom "saved my life," Madonna says as she stands crying in the doorway.
The first place Kate took Madonna was the Psychiatric Research Institute at the University of Arkansas. Madonna, a recovered alcoholic, has been taking anti-depressants for more than 10 years and had no problem seeking professional help for her grief. She didn't like the treatment she received at other mental health hospitals.
"The best they could do was give me a bunch of Benzos and hope for the best," she says.
PRI Director G. Richard Smith was the first person who was able to explain to Madonna what she was going through.
"This bond that exists between a mother and each one of her children -- that bond had basically been severed on Christmas morning," Madonna says, her hand drifting in front of her stomach as though cutting three ties. "He explained that severing that nerve had left me like this raw creature. And this year would be about, as best as I -- we -- could, putting together the nerves so the thinnest layer of skin could grow over."
Madonna collected the shattered pieces of her psyche through small epiphanies Kate describes as "awakenings." As winter gave way to spring, she found her smile.
The friends spent countless hours at Kate's letter press shop, a large room filled with heavy machinery and colorful artwork she shares with another printer. One evening they made a poster with the phrase "Sing your spring song" printed in bright blue letters.
They decided to share the message with Little Rock, and churned out dozens of copies as Jess sat on a stool playing guitar. Sometime before midnight they grabbed staple guns and drove around the city pinning posters to telephone poles. No spray paint cans were involved, but with Jess driving the getaway car and Kate yelling directions from the front seat it felt like they were being bad.
"That was really the first time that I had laughed," Madonna says as she looks at a copy of the poster in the print shop. "That I could really even remember laughing."
The next awakening was in April. Kate and Jess were having breakfast at the kitchen table when Madonna padded downstairs in pajamas and slippers, hair sticking out in all directions.
"She just stood in the room and said, `It's really weird that I'm living here with y'all, isn't it?'" Kate says, laughing loudly at the memory.
Kate found a rental house around the corner, a cozy ranch Madonna decorated in muted colors and antique furniture. The house is filled with people on a December evening, because Madonna makes friends fast and is rarely alone. Her shelves are filled with books and miniature porcelain statues grouped in threes. There are no visible photographs of her children.
"This is where I come to say `hi' to everybody," she says softly, bending slightly and opening a wooden cabinet in the living room corner.
Inside are dozens of photographs of her daughters -- playing, laughing, smiling. A snapshot of her mother cradling one of the newborn girls in the hospital. Another of her father and his long white beard. Rosary beads, a Buddhist statue, her mother's bracelet.
Madonna sniffs and reaches inside, her fingertips skimming the arrangement. She wipes her eyes and straightens, gently closing the solid wooden doors.
She wanted so badly to believe in the afterlife, a place where her daughters were happy and safe. The girls had been appearing to Madonna in dreams since the fire, delivering comforting messages of love and hope, but she discounted the visits as delusions until she read the book "Proof of Heaven" by Eben Alexander.
Alexander is a Duke and Harvard-educated neurosurgeon who nearly died in 2008 after contracting a rare form of meningitis. The illness put him in a coma for seven days, during which he says he experienced a voyage through the afterlife. He awoke with the certainty that life goes on after death and that love is the most powerful force in the universe.
"Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything," Alexander wrote in the book, which was published in October. "This is the reality of realities."
Alexander's story resonated with Madonna, and his background provided the credibility she craved. She knows now, she says, that her children are indeed with her -- happy and safe.
Madonna wears three bracelets on her wrist, one for each of her girls. Grace gave her the beaded bracelet on Christmas Eve, and Madonna was wearing it when she escaped the fire. Two leather bracelets symbolize Lily and Sarah.
"Now that they're not here with me physically, but here with me spiritually and every other way, I still want to be a great mom," Madonna says. "I want to be the best person I can be, even if that means not laying down -- not giving up."
This is why she has filed an intent-to-sue notice against the city of Stamford, which she alleges improperly tore down her house and removed the debris without her permission the day after the fire. Madonna has questions about the fire, and says she needs answers to properly honor her family.
Why did she survive?
Love, Madonna says as she washes lettuce in P. Allen Smith's kitchen. She met the PBS television host after moving to Little Rock and has visited his expansive farm and gardens several times over the past year. She's there one evening earlier this month, preparing dinner with the people who saved her life.
"I do believe that the only legacy that my children will ever leave is their love," she says. "They're not going to write a masterpiece or a symphony. This is really it. What saves you, what saves us all, is love."
It's why she's decided to roll The Other 364 foundation -- created in the days after the fire to receive the outpouring of sympathy and donations -- into her former husband's nonprofit. Matthew's program, the LilySarahGraceFund, raises money to support artistic learning in underfunded classrooms.
Matthew, who awoke to a knock on his New York apartment door from two Stamford policemen last Dec. 25, is in Panama for Christmas. He didn't talk to Madonna for a while after the funeral, which she understands.
"I mean can you imagine how he must have felt?" she says. "How he feels?"
They talk now, and Madonna says she's proud of the work he's done to support the creative outlet their daughters loved. Fundraising isn't Madonna's forte; she plans to honor the girls by spreading love as best she can.
The budding romance between her and Borcina ended after the fire. They didn't talk for a long time after the funeral, she says, but saw each other briefly over the summer.
"There's nothing there," is all she says about the relationship.
`She's going to give a lot of people hope'
Madonna's attitude changes with the time zone. Her Kentucky drawl dissipates in Manhattan, where she slips easily into her persona as a Fifth Avenue advertising executive. She talks quicker and sharper as she sits in her office's conference room in front of her laptop.
This was her last awakening, the realization that she still owns Badger & Winters. She started the company 18 years ago, and it has continued in her absence under the care of her longtime employees.
She is keeping her house in Little Rock, for now, but has rented a loft in Brooklyn and plans to start working again in January. Jess and Kate's younger daughter, Mary Read, will live with her for a while, to keep her company, help her settle in and keep track of her keys.
Madonna hears of other parents' heartbreak. The Long Island couple whose children died when the boat they were watching Fourth of July fireworks on capsized in Oyster Bay. Marina Krim in Manhattan, who came home to find two of her children stabbed to death by the nanny. Badger says she hopes every grieving parent can find the kind of love and support she found in Little Rock.
"I would say to that person it won't get better for a really long time; and even then it's not really better," she says. "There's no fast way out, but come sit with me and I'll talk with you for as long as you need."
This is why Madonna decided to step in front of television cameras earlier this month. Kate and Jess come with her to Manhattan, watching from the wings as she sits for interviews with Matt Lauer at NBC and Piers Morgan on CNN.
"She was amazing," Jess says as he sits in the green room at Time Warner studios. "She's going to give a lot of people hope."
Madonna is spending Christmas in Thailand. She flew over Dec. 7 with several suitcases of her daughters' toys, collected from her garage after the fire. She plans to donate them to at-risk girls at an orphanage.
"Santa Claus and retail signs and gift wrap and Christmas lights just doesn't do it for me right now," Madonna says. "I don't know if it ever will."
A few weeks later the news of the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown reaches Thailand. Twenty children, some the same age as her twins, killed in their classrooms just an hour up the road from Stamford 10 days before Christmas Eve. Madonna's heart breaks for their parents.
"I know they will scream out thousands and thousands of times that they want their children back," Badger writes on Facebook. "The most powerful words anyone said to me was `I LOVE YOU.' And that was all I needed to hear. I love you all and pray for you all."
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Barrett Ruud Still Huskers' All-Time Tackle Leader
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Growing up, greatness surrounded Barrett Ruud. His dad, Tom Ruud, was an All-America linebacker and first-round NFL draft choice. An uncle, Bob Martin, was an All-America defensive end and five-year pro like his dad. Another uncle, John Ruud, has been a staple of Nebraska's Tunnel Walk for decades because of his unforgettable hit in the Huskers' 1978 upset of No. 1 Oklahoma. Did we mention that Clarence Swanson, Barrett's great grandfather, was a Nebraska captain in 1921 and is one of 16 Husker players in the College Football Hall of Fame? Or that younger brother Bo Ruud was a Blackshirt and a Nebraska captain, too?
You'd think greatness rubbed off on Barrett and catapulted him into becoming Nebraska's all-time leading tackler and one of the Top Eight Blackshirts of all time, based on a recent Huskers.com fan poll that celebrated 50 Blackshirts Through 50 Years. Barrett grew up with a tenacious mindset. He grew up knowing Husker All-Americans John Dutton and Bob Nelson and hearing them talk about their Super Bowl experiences with his dad. Martin became an equal source of inspiration. How many kids grow up with an uncle who played for the New York Jets? How many grow up watching a video of Walter Payton running hill after hill after hill almost daily? How many grow up in Memorial Stadium's shadows, dreaming about pulling a Blackshirt over his head and being mentioned in the same breath with Grant Wistrom and Mike Brown?
Let the record show that Barrett Ruud became a Third-Team All-American at Nebraska. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted him in the second round because they liked what they saw and loved what they got – a 6-foot-2, 241-pound middle linebacker who led the team in tackles for four consecutive seasons while missing only one start. In four seasons at Nebraska, Ruud was in on 432 tackles and remains the Huskers' all-time career leader. In six seasons at Tampa Bay, he registered 779 tackles, five sacks, six interceptions, 23 passes broken up, six forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries. Barrett Ruud was born to be a Blackshirt, made to be a Husker and almost pre-destined to be a pro, but the third part of that equation had nothing to do with his football lineage and everything to do with a certain defensive coordinator that Frank Solich hired in the twilight of Barrett's collegiate career.
Barrett Listened to Solid, Career-Enhancing Advice
"I was an okay player as a freshman and a sophomore at Nebraska," Barrett said. "I always had the want to. From the time I was a little kid, I knew that you had to do something extra every day to succeed. You can't do what everybody else does. You have to do more. You can't show up, go to practice and go home. I did the extra weight training and kept asking (then strength coach) Brian Bailey what more should I be doing. Finally, he had to tell me that you can do too much, so I focused more on film study. I watched a lot of film, but I didn't really know how to watch it."
That changed instantly when Solich hired Bo Pelini as his defensive coordinator. "Bo Pelini – he was the guy I needed in my football life," Ruud said. "When Bo came, a lot of things just started to click for me my junior year. He not only showed me how to play technique-wise, but how to study film, what to look for and how to change. The minute he got here, I was like a sponge. I really enjoyed every minute of learning from him how I could get better every day. To this day, the biggest leap I ever made as a player was between spring ball when he arrived and the next fall. Just listening to him and learning from him took me from being an okay player to being a pretty good player."
We all know the sequences that follow "pretty good" and inspire you incrementally, if not perpetually. "I'll never forget the time Bo sat me down and explained what was wrong with my footwork," Ruud recalled. "I couldn't believe the difference I was watching on film the second day. You're not necessarily running faster, but you're moving so much better and look like a completely different athlete. I mean, the difference was night and day. As I look back at what Coach Bo taught me, that was the beginning for me. It was the key for me, and I needed more. From that day on, I was on a new journey, constantly trying to improve every day, and you could see it and feel it every day. There's nothing better than the satisfaction you see on film. It doesn't lie. It tells you the truth."
Blackshirts Symbolize Players Before You
The process, Bo Pelini's favorite two-words expression, was part of his coaching DNA long before Tom Osborne hired him to come back to Nebraska, and Barrett Ruud was classic proof of what he brings to the table. Blackshirts are a half-century old standard at Nebraska. "For me, it was more of a motivating tool than anything else because wearing one makes you want to play not only for your teammates, but all the guys who came before you," Ruud said. "They're a tribute to the past, and that was definitely not lost on me. When I pulled that first Blackshirt over my head, I knew it wasn't about me, but everyone around me and everyone before me."
That first-time experience helped Ruud understand what his dad had been telling him for years – if you have a bad day of practice, you're letting a lot more people down than just yourself. "You kind of feel like the Blackshirts who were here before you are watching you practice … guys like my dad and all the others who wore those cheap, black mesh jerseys, not like the state-of-the-art jerseys we were wearing."
Old school or new school, Blackshirts have helped Nebraska win far more games than any other NCAA FBS school over the last half century. They set the standard for Barrett Ruud in college and that standard continued to elevate in the NFL, where he applied the same everyday principles that took him there. The ride was running every step just like Walter Payton did. Succeeding in the NFL is no different than flourishing in college. There is no escalator to the top.
Barrett, Wife, Dog Make Lincoln New Home
Barrett made one big mistake in the pros. He was so tough, so determined and so committed, he allowed himself to continue to play in the NFL with one good arm, and eventually that caught up with him. He bounced to three other teams and the clock finally struck midnight. He didn't need "The Turk" to tell him it was over. He told himself. He, wife Jenna and Millie, their German Shorthair dog, are rehabbing a house near the Lincoln Country Club, where Barrett grew up. They are excited to begin their new life after football.
Over the Labor Day weekend, Barrett enjoyed running into Derrie Nelson and Steve Manstedt at a gathering at Uncle Bob's house – two former Blackshirts who played in the NFL, yet still embrace the Good Life of Nebraska. Barrett loves the Sea of Red in Memorial Stadium, but he will always be wearing black when he passes through the gates. His great grandfather, his dad and his brother were all Nebraska football captains, just like he was. That's why they're the First Family of Nebraska Football, right up there with the legendary Fischer Family…proud of their roots, delighted with their heritage and blessed with a lifelong dedication to getting better every single day.
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Belt Loop Requirements
- Explain the parts of a personal computer: central processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
- Demonstrate how to start up and shut down a personal computer properly.
- Use your computer to prepare and print a document.
Academics Pin Requirements
Earn the Computers belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:
- Use a computer to prepare a report on a subject of interest to you. Share it with your den.
- Make a list of 20 devices that can be found in the home that use a computer chip to function.
- Use a computer to maintain a balance sheet of your earnings for four weeks.
- Use a spreadsheet program to organize some information.
- Use an illustration, drawing, or painting program to create a picture.
- Use a computer to write a thank-you letter to someone.
- Log on to the Internet. Visit the Boy Scouts of America homepage (http://www.scouting.org).
- Discuss with an adult personal safety rules you should use while using the Internet.
- Practice a new computer game for two weeks. Demonstrate an improvement in your scores.
- Correspond with a friend using e-mail. Have at least five e-mail replies from your friend.
- Visit a local business or government agency that uses a large mainframe computer to handle their business. Be able to explain how computers save them time and money in carrying out their work.
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- Earning the Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is requirement 14 of the Webelos Communicator Activity Badge.
- Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times
Related achievements, electives, or other awards
- Wolf Cub Scout
- Wolf Electives
- Wolf Elective 21a. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Pin requirement 11
- Wolf Elective 21b. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement 3 or Cub Scout Computers Pin requirements 1, 3, 4, or 6
- Wolf Elective 21c. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement 1
- Bear Achievement 17d. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 or Cub Scout Computers Pin requirements 1 or 4
- Bear Achievement 17e. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 or Cub Scout Computers Pin requirement 6
- Bear Elective 22c. could be met by completing Cub Scout Computers Pin requirement 4
- Communicator Activity Badge requirement 14. (earn the Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout)
This program was discontinued in May, 2015.
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Investigators found "copious amounts" of blood and other clues linking a man to the fatal shooting and dismemberment of a Detroit-area couple who had allowed him to move in a few weeks ago, police said Monday.
The details were disclosed during the first court appearance for Roger Bowling, who is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb. The dismembered bodies of the victims were found last week miles away in the Detroit River.
The courtroom was filled with friends and relatives of Danielle Greenway, 32, and Chris Hall, 42. There was quiet tension in the room until police began escorting Bowling back to jail.
"Burn in hell!" Greenway's mother, Lila Greenway, yelled. Others jeered too.
Meanwhile, Bowling's former landlords said they evicted him from two houses this year after he failed to pay thousands of dollars in rent.
The 39-year-old handyman said nothing as District Court Judge John Courtright read the charges, which include murder, tampering with evidence and mutilation of bodies. No defense attorney was present, and Bowling was returned to jail without bond.
He was arrested Thursday in the home shared by Greenway and Hall, who had planned to marry. Bowling, apparently down on his luck, was allowed to move in a few weeks ago. He was Greenway's former boyfriend from many years ago.
"Copious amounts of blood were found within the home" along with bullet fragments, Allen Park police Det. Sgt. Jon Mathis told the judge. "There was an attempt to clean up the crime scene."
Mathis said Bowling previously lived in suburbs just east of Detroit, not far from where the bodies were found floating in the river near the Detroit-Grosse Pointe Park border. A power saw and suitcases were also discovered there.
As for a motive, "we're not 100 percent sure," Mathis later told The Associated Press.
Al Stone, a lifelong friend of the Greenway family, said Bowling retrieved cable TV equipment for a cable TV company. He said Greenway had a big heart, and "it blew up in her face."
"He was always 'poor me, poor me.' She always felt bad for him," Stone said outside court when asked why Greenway took Bowling in.
Hall's sister, Laura Robichaud, said her brother brought her a cake on her birthday, July 4. She wished him a happy birthday via text message on July 15 but he didn't reply.
"My brother wanted him gone," Robichaud said of Bowling. "Maybe because (Bowling) and Danielle used to date and he remained a family friend."
Before moving in with the couple, Bowling was forced out of two other Allen Park homes because he failed to pay rent, according to court records and interviews with landlords.
Bowling was evicted from one home in February after missing at least five monthly payments. He moved to another house but was out by May, leaving behind bullets and trash.
"He was a very bad guy for me," said Alexandru Juhasz, Bowling's landlord for three months. "He had a lot of cash for the first month, hundred-dollar bills. I never saw him again until I evicted him. He left the place like hell. It was full of dog (feces) and holes in the walls."


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quote:Originally posted by The DukeIts going to be hard for the leafs to make any moves this season mandree888....they are cap maxed....if the leafs bring in any major cap player, the same cap has to move out.If the leafs were to acquire a player like O`Reilly, whats his cap hit ??...around 5 mill per season ??....its ok to say Gardiner plus other tangibles to make the deal work but the Av`s have to take back O`Reillys cap hit for the deal to work out in Toronto......In reality, who would the Av`s really be interested in off Toronto who would make their team better than it already is with O`Reilly ???......considering that the same cap hit would have to be swapped.Look for this deal you talk about to happen more-so in the off season when the cap rises.....the leafs will bring in a big - splash player but it will likely be this summer.I`ve always said the leafs need a # 1 center and i still think they do...but...the chemistry between kessel - Bozak and JVR right now is undeniable.
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quote:Originally posted by ryan93It'll be interesting to see what the Rangers decide to do in the coming weeks. Both Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi are unrestricted this summer, but I just can't envision either being dealt at the deadline despite all of the rumours floating around lately.I think Callahan will be resigned. Girardi, I'm not sure what his long term future holds, but my prediction is stays in NY for the rest of this season at least.Michael Del Zotto I thnk will be moved. He needs a change of scenery and a fresh start. I could see him thriving on a team like San Jose.
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quote:Originally posted by nuxfanlots of talk recently about WPG, and Ladd or Kane being on the move. Not surprisingly, the Canucks are rumored to be in the hunt for either (both are local boys), and either would be a huge addition to the team.I'm not sure what would have to go the other way though, neither would be cheap. I'd be more than happy to see Edler go the other way as part of a package, or perhaps straight up.
quote:Originally posted by Alex116As for Edler, I guess he'd have to agree to waive his NTC if he were part of a deal? 2 years ago I'd have said the Canucks were crazy to even consider dealing Edler. Now, I'd be okay with it. He's really not panned out the way I'd expected/hoped. It's a shame. He really does have all the tools, but he just continues to be inconsistent and uninterested on some nights? I think It'd take more than Edler to get Kane and maybe even for Ladd?
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quote:Originally posted by Alex116quote:Originally posted by Guest6173Is there a trade period in this pool? ThanksHeard today that although he's got a NTC, there's been talk of an Edler to Detroit deal in the works that could happen in the next couple days. This would mean he'd have to waive his NTC of course, but he may be interested in moving on? Strange thing is though, MG has said he won't ask guys to do such a thing (waive the NTC) so unless a guy comes and actually asks to be moved, then I don't know how he'd get a deal done??? Unless of course Edler has mentioned this but I kinda doubt it?
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quote:Originally posted by slozoSo what's all this on Ryan Kesler of Vancouver?There is a LOT of chatter that he was very public and openly talking about how he had asked for a trade, he wanted a trade/wanted out of Vancouver . . . but now publicly denies it all, of course.Kesler . . . that's a pretty big fish out there, I'd say. He'd be the cream of the crop in terms of deadline deals . . . Hmm. Yeah, I might give up Kadri for Kesler, sure. Not sure how much beside Kadri I'd have to give, but might not be much . . . Kadri is young and has upside, and Kesler is an injury prone guy . . . could be close to even.Kesler to the Rangers perhaps?Would he OK a Montreal deal?Then there's Philly and Pittsburgh . . . Philly would definitely make a play for Kesler.Very, very interesting."Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug
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Hello all,Just wanting to see if anyone is running, or has heard about dual side-mount intercooler kits?I'm know they won't work as well as a FMIC, but I'm trying to keep the car looking as low key as possible.Thanks,Kevin
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"Let Films Be Films"
Natalie Zemon Davis is a distinguished professor of history with an interest in film, as demonstrated in her most famous book, The Return of Martin Guerre (1983). Slaves on Screen follows the program of its title in discussing the depiction of slaves in a small corpus of films from 1960 to 1999: from slaves in ancient Rome in Spartacus, to a variety of rebellions by slaves of African origins in Haiti (Burn!), Cuba (The Last Supper), and the United States (Amistad), as well as the question of slave history and memory in Beloved, Jonathan Demme's film based on Toni Morrison's novel. Undoubtedly the subject of Davis's book, the largest part of which is devoted to the traumas and legacies of the barbarous "Middle Passage" on today's African Americans, is topical and important. The book ends with a discussion of Amistad and Beloved, two films produced by three of the most influential people in today's American cultural scene: Steven Spielberg (director of Amistad), Toni Morrison and Oprah Winfrey (one of the originators and star of the film version of Beloved). For this reason perhaps, but also because the earlier films are no longer widely seen, the reader's interest increases as the book progresses.
Davis's prose is consistently clear and free of jargon and she conveys her historian's erudition in an uncluttered and direct manner. This is a short, economical book (too short even; one might argue for a wider range of films and certainly for a filmography, a bibliography, and an index). Slaves on Screen speaks vividly, and at times emotionally, to all those with an interest in slavery and especially in the relationship between African Americans and their past. Whether it speaks as eloquently to those interested in film is a different matter. Slaves on Screen falls within two related fields in film studies. The main one is that of film and history, the other—especially in the case of Beloved—that of literary adaptation. In both cases, and especially when writers in these fields come not from film studies, but from history or literature, film often ends up as the subsidiary term to a higher instance, be it historical "truth" or literature. "Film and history" is a large field in which the work of Siegfried Kracauer, Dudley Andrew, Richard Allen and Douglas Gomery, Marc Ferro, Michèle Lagny and Pierre Sorlin (to name the most prominent) has shown, through the decades since Kracauer's 1947 groundbreaking study From Caligari to Hitler, the multifarious understandings of the relationships between film and history, taking aesthetic, economic, sociological, ideological, or cultural approaches. As Marc Ferro put it, "every film has value as a document, whatever its seeming nature" (Cinema and History, 1988). One can see how the genre of "historical film" would be of particular interest to a historian, but as the work of Ferro and more recently Lagny (De l'histoire du cinéma, 1992) show, the historian needs to be alert to the textual and contextual specificities of film, whether fiction, documentary, home movie, or whatever, and in particular to other films produced at the same time as the object of study. More recently still, an excellent study by Sylvie Lindeperg on the representation of World War II, the German occupation, and the Resistance in French films (the 1997 publication, Les écrans de l'ombre, La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le cinéma français, 1944–1969) demonstrates how the basic historical events of the period were instantly mythologized and restaged differently in all sorts of texts and in waves of films to suit diverse ideological contexts over the decades, on an analogy with Georges Duby's analysis of the representation of the 1214 battle of Bouvines in an array of written texts. The representation of slavery, from the racist early 1960s at the time of Spartacus (and of course from the earliest days of the cinema), to the more enlightened, and more politically correct 1990s, would, if such an approach were used, no doubt reveal an interesting and complex trajectory.
Davis's method in contrast consists in comparing each film in turn with the "real" events and, unsurprisingly, the film's shortcomings are exposed: simplifications, omissions, inventions, in short, betrayals. If I put "real" in inverted commas here, it is not because I don't believe in reality—and indeed Davis expertly marshals the empirical evidence for the events depicted in the films—but because the sources of such data (including literature) are assumed in this book to be self-evidently correct and transparently readable, rather than texts that are constructed and subject to a host of constraints, biases and manipulations, just like films in fact.
When it comes to the comparison between book and film, a similar hierarchy is at work: "In the movement from the miraculous prose of Toni Morrison to the screen, the story of Beloved has lost some of its breadth, complexity, and imaginative range." (p. 108). Although in this instance, Davis goes on to say that the book's "central messages have been sustained," her position is within the classic paradigm of "fidelity" that has plagued studies of literary adaptations (see Brian McFarlane, From Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation, 1996). It is not that Davis is not interested in films. There is valuable information on the production context and, as I said, she does praise the films at various points. But production context here means the decisions made by the people involved (drawn mainly from interviews) and not the wider context of generic trends and industrial strategies—for instance the production of particular genres in relation to technology (such as wide screen in Spartacus), stardom (for example, Brando in Burn!), and so on. Davis's analysis also remains on the level of explicit content and narrative (each chapter contains lengthy plot commentaries) rather than symbolism and, crucially, cinematography and mise-en-scène. There is little detailed textual analysis and, more surprising, no interest in the reception of the film, whether by critics or audiences. There is an assumption throughout that the historian-analyst can, by measuring the film against the standard of "truth", account for a unique and final meaning of the film—no reading against the grain here, no polysemy, no ambiguity; whereas, to take an example in a related topic, Jacqueline Bobo's work (Black Women as Cultural Readers, 1995) on the reception of Spielberg's The Color Purple by black women spectators showed precisely such complexity, turning on their head the standard readings of the film at the time. Davis, on the other hand, assumes that the audience (of Amistad) needs guidance and "should be let in on the game and not be given the false impression of a 'true story'" (p. 131).
There is thus an oddly didactic slant to Davis's approach and she does not hesitate either to apportion blame and guidance to filmmakers on how to produce more accurate films. For instance, in reference again to Amistad, Davis declares, "There could have been other solutions 'here the camera would offer'" (p. 92). Maybe this is interesting speculation to Davis, but what use is it to the viewer of the existing film? Davis concludes her book with the stern advice that "Historical films should let the past be the past." Agreed, but then historians should also let films be films.
—Ginette Vincendeau is professor of film studies at the University of Warwick. Her most recent books are Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London: Continuum, 2000) and Film/Literature/Heritage: A Sight and SoundReader (London: BFI, 2001).
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